alex-robbins

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by alex-robbins 21d ago
If you can't tell the difference between computer science and software engineering, then at least one of those worlds contains none of your feet.
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by alex-robbins 1mo ago
I'm at https://indigene.app/regions/pnw (on Firefox on Android) and I'm frustrated because I can't find a map of the region's boundary. It's not at all clear to me how far north or south the re
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by alex-robbins 2mo ago
It seems like "serving advertisements" and "serving intelligence" are antithetical goals. Presumably, the market will recognize that in the long term. Of course, I make no claims about how far in the long one will need t
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by alex-robbins 6mo ago
No, that's an example of robots/AI not working out. Yes, this means that "making robots/AI work out" is a political and economic problem, not just a technical one.
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by alex-robbins 9mo ago
Care to name them? I use Mullvad, and I love them, but their exit nodes are routinely blocked by Reddit and streaming services.
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by alex-robbins 1y ago
The use case for this is similar to the cold boot attack, e.g. disk is encrypted but memory is not. (And I don't know how encrypted DRAM works, but I wouldn't be surprised if some implementations put the key in SRAM that can be du
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by alex-robbins 1y ago
I'm not a physicist, but I took a class on special relativity in college, and I still remember some of it ... If I'm remembering it right, we still have conservation of momentum and energy in special relativity, with the caveat th
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by alex-robbins 1y ago
You think that the farther in the future you go, the less likely it is that any existing population will know how to fix what breaks? That strikes me as oddly pessimistic, and frankly unlikely.
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by alex-robbins 1y ago
It strikes me as too bad that this API is so imperative. You can see a pattern over and over in the README where they have `do` blocks, in which they clear some global state (`initialize-prolog`), then add some assertions back into that glo
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by alex-robbins 1y ago
> a sort of homoiconicity of code and data (hence JSON as a data format) I get that "sort of" was an attempt to hedge, but really, this isn't even close. Homoiconicity here would be if all javascript source files were vali
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by alex-robbins 1y ago
I don't see it in the Android app either, and I find the original claim very hard to believe in the first place, since that would be a weird piece of information for Signal to reveal about a user.
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by alex-robbins 1y ago
A superellipse is only a squircle if a and b are 1. As with squares and rectangles, all squircles are superellipses but not all superellipses are squircles.
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by alex-robbins 2y ago
Well, if you remove the choice, that can actually sacrifice the ergonomics GP described, because of one of the important differences between stacked and tabbed: directionality. Tabs are oriented along a horizontal axis; as with hsplits, y
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by alex-robbins 2y ago
Does anyone else find it suspicious that the author was using so many workspaces on sway? I have to wonder if they're not making good use of sway's tabbed and stacked containers ... > If you don't find yourself constantly
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by alex-robbins 2y ago
WhatsApp is closed source. They could backdoor it if they wanted to (or were forced to).
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by alex-robbins 2y ago
It's very possible. Firefox for Android has a "Desktop site" switch in each tab's menu that works fine, including for GitHub.
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by alex-robbins 2y ago
"Source First License 1.1" is an interesting choice. Sounds like something specific to this developer (so far, at least). I'm not savvy enough to be sure, but it doesn't sound compatible with any of the commonly accepted
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by alex-robbins 2y ago
It's too bad EDN [1] hasn't seen much adoption outside of the biblical paradise that is the Clojure ecosystem. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure#Extensible_Data_Nota... In fact, there doesn't
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by alex-robbins 2y ago
That happened in Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds (2002), though of course the idea may also have been used before or since.
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by alex-robbins 2y ago
> A USB DFU function embedded in boot ROM is flatly undesirable in an MCU with no memory protection. Are you saying DFU is not useful without an MMU/MPU? Why would that be?
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by alex-robbins 2y ago
When you write a procedure that has to maintain an internal state between calls, stopping what you're doing and switching to functional programming makes sense.
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by alex-robbins 2y ago
The only difference between this and https://xkcd.com/1958/ is that this attack confuses cars from certain manufacturers but not human drivers, and I'm not sure that that distinction is important. Is this attack a
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by alex-robbins 3y ago
This is false. It's true that staying at 100% is harder on lithium ion batteries than staying at 40%. However, the wear due to charge cycles is way, way more significant. Your battery will see much less wear if you keep it at 100% for
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by alex-robbins 3y ago
> the sentiment of this comment comes off as asking what the end game is for any hacker demonstrating vulnerabilities GP isn't asking about the "endgame" as in "for what purpose did this author do this thing?". I
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by alex-robbins 3y ago
Does the Pi 4 have hardware video decoding in mainline Linux yet? I gave up on Raspberry stuff after buying a 4 and finding out that the mainline support was so much worse than expected.
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by alex-robbins 3y ago
See my other comment on this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37685921
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by alex-robbins 3y ago
> the clove hitch is not the greatest though, so I'm never sure what to do The rolling hitch [1] is a slight variation that works great as a drop-in replacement. For attaching a rope to a pole, I go as far down this list as is feasi
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by alex-robbins 3y ago
I'm so sick of this claim. Nix allows you to keep old versions of things installed, but you certainly don't have to. When I switched from Debian to NixOS a few years ago, I installed it on a separate subvolume, and it ended up t
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by alex-robbins 3y ago
> "Every time Software is used to fix a [Electrical/Mechanical] problem, a Gremlin is born" I'm definitely going to use this, and I think there's a more general statement: "Every time software is used to fix
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by alex-robbins 3y ago
In the context of this article, it's worth pointing out that hiccup doesn't escape strings automatically. Rum does, and I've been using it as a drop-in replacement: user> (require '[rum.core :as rum]

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